Nicco Mele and John Wihbey | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Nicco Mele and John Wihbey

Nicco Mele is the author of The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath. He is an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and a consultant and strategist on digital technology for politics and business. He was webmaster for Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential bid. John Wihbey is editor of Journalist’s Resource at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics & Public Policy. He is also a lecturer in journalism at Boston University.

The end of big (media): When news orgs move from brands to platforms for talent

“What if news organizations confronted the reality that nearly all media will be ‘social media’ a decade hence?…What if news organizations acknowledged this — or even got out in front of it, ahead of the curve this time — and organized themselves as platforms for talent?”